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Council Draft Plan Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is inviting responses to its draft 2025-2030 Corporate Plan. The draft plan aims “to make a Hastings where residents are proud of their…
Creepy Crawly Christmas
Should we swap our traditional Christmas turkey for a plate of locusts to help the environment, asks Susan McFie? Love it or hate it, Christmas is coming and it’s just…
Bird flu – Domestic and in the Wild
All poultry on a chicken farm in north Bexhill have been destroyed in a cull ordered by DEFRA (the government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) following the identification…
Virus ‘Kills Millions’ of Birds
By Richard Price With attention over the past two years focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, you may have missed the news of another virus that is spreading round the country…
Coronavirus: The Lessons For Climate Change Policy
By Maya Evans In a week when the Coronavirus crisis sent millions into isolation in their homes, and the NHS was braced for an influx of patients, Planet Earth sent…
Coronavirus: Getting It Into Perspective
By Kathryn Vale Humans love a plague – it triggers some atavistic terror. But so far the most contagious thing about coronavirus is the worldwide panic attack it has provoked.…